The Top NBA Teams Have A Road-Court Advantage, Too

The Golden State Warriors already enjoy one of the best home-court advantages in the league, and with their recent title runs, they now often get to enjoy some home cooking while on the road as well. In general, during the NBA’s regular season the league’s best teams often enjoy a … Read more

At Last, The NBA Training Camps Are Here

Congratulations, NBA fans! You’ve survived yet another summer of social media rants, players grumbling about ESPN rankings and video game ratings and mostly unfounded trade rumors, and are now ready for the 2017-18 training camps certain to be accompanied by social media rants, players grumbling about ESPN rankings and video … Read more

Small College Hoops – Beating Up Big Brother

We know all about the college basketball powerhouses like Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, etc., the NCAA Division 1 schools we’ve been watching on television and hearing about for years, along with the dozens of NBA players who once wore those school’s colors, but there are hundreds of other schools in … Read more

Why NBA Player Rankings Are Meaningless

The National Basketball Association’s 2017-18 season must be drawing near. It must be September and the rosters must be nearly set.  There’s simply not much newsworthy going on, not even trade rumors. To save the day, for the seventh straight year, ESPN’s NBA Player Rankings from 1-100 is once again … Read more

Off Topic: Time To Ban The Celebratory Football Head Slap

The football season is in full swing at all levels. If one could not locate a football game on television this weekend – live or otherwise – they simply weren’t trying.  On the college level, there were actually some compelling contests amidst all the 55-3 coffer-filling mismatches, but for some … Read more

Basketball In The Year 2040

So far we’ve taken the basketball commentary back to the 1970’s and kept one eye on current events, so it’s only fair that we take a peek into the future for professional and college hoops, featuring an arbitrarily selected year of 2040 – 23 years ahead. Considering how much the … Read more

Midrangehoops.com Trivia Quiz # 4 – Summer of 2017

Here’s a quiz to test your knowledge of NBA player movement during the Summer of 2017.  There was a flurry of activity in early July, then things slowed down considerably. Still, some of the league’s top players will have new addresses for the 2017-18 NBA season while others are still … Read more

NBA Franchise Relocation: About Those Names

There are certainly no Raptors in Toronto, hopefully there are no Bulls in Chicago, and a drive through New York City’s largest borough will reveal very few outdoor basketball hoops in Brooklyn with Nets on them. So while there is no rule stating that professional sports franchises must have a … Read more

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